Yet I see loads of empty residential driveways. Obviously they work during the day somewhere else.

My idea is to get a website together that says 'park on my driveway, and put $2 (or something) through the door each day .. make sure you're here after 8:30am.
and gone by 6pm'.

It also helps security for the home owner as burglers don't know when you are not there .. makes the home owner money for free as they wouldn't be in anyway .. and makes life easier for the person presently having to pay 3 times that for the multi-storey thats 10 minutes walk away from work.

If the driveway is full (so the homeowner has a day off sick) the guy just thinks 'can't park there today' and goes back to the multi-storey. If the guy who is going to rent the driveway does not go to work 1 day -- no problem .. the person renting the driveway doesn't get their $2. Simple!

I like it, but it seems easier to just put a sign out, saying "$2 Parking, 8:30am - 6pm, place money in mail slot". You'll get more business from people driving by than those that happen to go to the right web site and plan ahead.

Hey [World], I was going to say the same thing, but when I was thinking about it, I realized that I would much rather arrange the parking discretely rather than have a big sign in front of my house.

Having a sign is much better for people who are in the area for random errands (and possibly more profitable), but I think I would rather arrange to have one person renting the driveway full time rather than having thousands of random people parking there.

Not really. If you had an arangement with one person, and they didn't pay for a while, you could get their car towed away or something.

Or you could put up the sign, and think of it a diffent way. Instead of "These evil people are using my drive without paying" think "well half of them are paying, and even when someone is using my drive without paying, its not as if its hurting me."

[ksra]- burglars couldn't assume that nobody's home. Just because one car is gone doesn't mean the residence is empty. In fact, it works better when someone IS home (or a camera's running) so they know when to tow non-payers.

Advertising "Driveway is clear" is not the same as advertising "nobody home".

I see great money-making prank potential here, involving a lot of 'Park on my drive for $2.00' signs with padlocked drop slots attached. Pick the closest house with a nice drive, plop down the sign, and swing by to pick it up before the homeowners arrive.

This is a great idea -- bumping up the croissant level. When I was at my first place in Austin (an "interesting" apartment carved out of a small house), it was near the UTexas stadium, and game days meant cash for the landlord, who wrangled at least 3 cars into his tiny patch of dirt at 10 or 15 bucks each. One day, I'll be a landlord, too, I hope ;) Easy money for a few hours, utilizing nothing but sunk resources.

I have vague plans to bake this for my own driveway. I am next to a railway station in the cheap fare zone for my city, and within 100 meters of a major commuter road. And my yard could easily take four or five cars.